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The Gulf of Maine is the most southerly important center of abundance for this 

 shrimp, and although it ranges much farther southward along the continental slope, 

 most of Hansen's (1915) locality records of it from abreast of Cape Cod to the latitude 



Fig. 53. — Occurrence of the euphausiid shrimp Meganydiphanes norvegica, July to September 15. #, locality records. 

 The hatched curve incloses the area of regular occurrence in summer and early autumn 



of Delaware Bay (37° 25' N. lat.) were based on odd specimens only, and we did 

 not detect it west of Cape Cod in the summers of 1913 or 1916. The frequency with 

 which it has been recorded in deep water off Cape Cod and off southern New England 



